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Burning Man
September 2008 
Am I done yet?
Lindsey
It is of my opinion that completion is a very important part of life and essential to happiness. If one lives without ever completing anything clearly there will be suffering. I think we should do more to ensure things get completed even if they do not necessarily need completion. For example, I have often said that I think we should pick a date and be done with road construction, all of it. Clearly there will still be road work that needs to be done, but that can wait a week or two. Perhaps this would be economically traumatic however; I think the psychological benefits to the United States as a whole might be worth it. Just think if Bush started a war we could actually win; a war on road construction. At least for a month or so, we could really accomplish something. Anyway, my point is that today it is time to tie up loose ends and gain sanity. It is time to finish shit. Why should I spend mental energy worrying about graduation when I could take an hour to go talk to my advisor? Maybew I should start thoes online classes that have been looming around my mind for the last 10 months. What about those blockbusters due 3 weeks ago? My ipod I need to fix? It would be so nice if I could just be done with everything for a moment, maybe an hour, you know, before I had to go eat or piss again. I just want to be done for ten fucking minuets. I wonder if I had nothing to do if I’d suddenly die? Maybe I’d get bored? No, I’d remember that book I still have to read. Ahhhhh… the books, that is why I will never be done! Fuck this, I have to get back to work.
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Ahhh I know exactly how you feel…I can't remember the last time everything was done for ten minutes! Nice blog but it reminds me of all the shit I have to do… thanks a lot!
I don't know what I'd do if I actually had everything “done” for a few minutes. Granted, I don't work very hard to actualize that future, but fuck… If I did, admittedly I'd feel a little empty and directionless. I don't want to ever be done, at least not until about a year before I die, or better yet, a week. I don't want to leave anything undone, but in the meantime… Then again, there's not that much that I have to do. Maybe if I were in your position, my thinking would be different.
I don't want everything done either, that would be horrible. I want new things to do, that is why the old stagnant items lying around are unhealthy. It would be cool to put the slash on all those obnoxious reoccurring transactions though… you know, like sleeping and eating.
But, for how long is anything going to last as 'new?' ;-)
I know what you mean about eating and sleeping. Being human is kind of funny. You have to stick stuff in your mouth and make it soft and then it goes somewhere inside of you where you can’t see it anymore. That shit’s crazy.
I guess because we are stuck with eating and sleeping we might as well Erotically embrace both.